Chinese Railway Diplomacy: Fostering Regional Change With Global Implications
May 26th, 2015
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), a very interesting look at China’s railway diplomacy One of the highlights of Chinese Premier Li Keqiang’s visit to Latin America has been the continued discussion of a proposed transcontinental railway linking the east coast ports of Brazil to the west coast ports of Peru. The ambitious project, which in earlier […]
Read more »Middleweight Cities: Key To Global Growth
May 26th, 2015
Courtesy of The Financial Times, an interesting look at the rise of middleweight cities in the global economy: Even Western executives who are good at geography may have a hard time picking out Surat, Foshan and Porto Alegre on a map. Yet over the next decade, each of these cities will contribute more to global […]
Read more »Equatorial Guinea: Self-Proclaimed “Singapore of Africa”
May 22nd, 2015
Via The World Folio, an interesting report on Equatorial Guinea: Buoyed by the funds from oil exports as well as the prestige of its newly discovered resources, Equatorial Guinea has begun to leverage its more prominent place on the world map to improve itself in ways that are not purely economic. Well aware that no country […]
Read more »Pakistan’s Balochistan Natural Gas Reserves
May 20th, 2015
Via Global Voices online, an interesting look at Balochistan’s natural gas potential: Balochistan is the most underdeveloped province of Pakistan, and Dera Bugti is one of the most underdeveloped parts of this province. In Dera Bugti is located Sui, the area which has come to be the backbone of Pakistan’s economy. Natural gas was discovered at Sui […]
Read more »Consider Kazakhstan: American Billionaire Jim Rogers Advises
May 10th, 2015
Via the Tengri News, an article on Jim Rogers’ recent emerging market investment interests: A famous American investor and businessman Jim Rogers said in his recent interview to CNN that he continued purchasing shares of Russian companies and advised to invest in the emerging markets like Iran, Kazakhstan, North Korea and a number of African countries. The […]
Read more »Myanmar: The Next Frontier For Offshore Oil
May 10th, 2015
Via Stasha Macro World, a report on Myanmar’s offshore oil ambitions: The government of Myanmar is further opening up to international business by signing a deal with two foreign energy companies, Statoil of Norway and ConocoPhillips of the United States, who will invest more than $300 million to explore and drill for oil and gas […]
Read more »Focusing primarily on The New Seven Sisters - the largely state owned petroleum companies from the emerging world that have become key players in the oil & gas industry as identified by Carola Hoyos, Chief Energy Correspondent for The Financial Times - but spanning other nascent opportunities around the globe that may hold potential in the years ahead, Wildcats & Black Sheep is a place for the adventurous to contemplate & evaluate the emerging markets of tomorrow.